Melbourne author and bookseller Aoife Clifford’s forthcoming thriller, Second Sight (S&S, July), has sold to US publisher Pegasus Books for publication in the US Summer of 2019. North American rights... Read more

New Zealand musician, writer and artist Jessica Hansell, also known as Coco Solid, has received the Fulbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer’s Residency, which will see her produce a body of... Read more

Books+Publishing’s most recent Junior newsletter contains 13 reviews of books publishing in July and August 2018. Barry Jonsberg’s middle-grade novel A Song Only I Can Hear (A&U, July) received the maximum... Read more

In the UK, Benjamin Myers has won the 2018 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for The Gallows Pole (Bluemoose Books), a novelisation of the true story of 18th-century counterfeiting gang the... Read more

The UK Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) has announced the winners of the 2018 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals. British writer Geraldine McCaughrean won the Carnegie Medal... Read more